The American 1890s

, by Smith, Susan Harris; Dawson, Melanie

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ISBN: 9780822325123 | 0822325128
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Copyright: 10/1/2000

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"This excellent sourcebook covers a range of topics, from education to mental health, from labor and the city to reading and culture. A thorough and well-conceived collection."--Priscilla Wald, author of "Constituting Americans: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form"

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

A Timeline of America at Century's End

xiii

Introduction

(14)

Becoming Cultured and Culture as Commodity

(60)

``The Ideal of Culture,'' Chautauquan

(8)

F. W. Gunsaulus

``Wealth,'' North American Review

(10)

Andrew Carnegie

Brief Observations on the Habit of Reading

(1)

``The Reading Habit,'' Critic

``Courses of Reading,'' Critic

(2)

``What Chicago People Read,'' Critic

(4)

``A Note on Servants' Libraries,'' Critic

(1)

``The Novel-Reading Habit,'' Arena

(8)

George Clarke

``The Pelican,'' Scribner's

(15)

Edith Wharton

``The Economic Theory of Women's Dress,'' Popular Science Monthly

(9)

Dr. Thorstein Veblen

The Idea of Types

(68)

``The Modern American Mood,'' Harper's

(9)

William Dean Howells

``The Provincials,'' from a series, ``Sketches of American Types,'' Scribner's

(7)

Octave Thanet

``The Conduct of Life,'' from a series, ``The Art of Living,'' Scribner's

(12)

Robert Grant

``Talma Gordon,'' Colored American Magazine

105

(12)

Pauline E. Hopkins

``The College Graduate and Public Life,'' Atlantic Monthly

117

(8)

Theodore Roosevelt

``The Awakening of the Negro,'' Atlantic Monthly

125

(9)

Booker T. Washington

``The Status of Woman, Past, Present, and Future,'' Arena

134

(9)

Susan B. Anthony

Labor

143

(52)

``The Workers---The West: Among the Revolutionaries,'' Scribner's

146

(10)

Walter A. Wyckoff

``In the Depths of a Coal Mine,'' McClure's

156

(7)

Stephen Crane

``A Paying Concern: A True Story of American Factory Life,'' McClure's

163

(8)

Gertrude Roscoe

``The Night Run of the `Overland': A Story of Domestic Life Among the Railroad People,'' McClure's

171

(10)

Elmore Elliott Peake

``Women and Girls in Sweat-Shops,'' Chautauquan

181

(4)

Florence Kelley

``Working-Girl's Clubs,'' Scribner's

185

(10)

Clara Sidney Davidge

Social, Ethnic, and Racial Strife

195

(64)

``Club Life Among Outcasts,'' Harper's

199

(11)

Josiah Flynt

``The Future of the Red Man,'' Forum

210

(10)

Simon Pokagon

``Lynch Law in the South,'' North American Review

220

(6)

Frederick Douglass

``A Ghetto Wedding,'' Atlantic Monthly

226

(12)

Abraham Cahan

``The Genesis of the Gang,'' Atlantic Monthly

238

(11)

Jacob A. Riis

``Step-Brothers to Dives,'' Harper's

249

(10)

Louise Betts Edwards

Mental Health & Physical Training

259

(60)

``The Gospel of Relaxation,'' Scribner's

261

(12)

William James

``Fashion's Slaves,'' Arena

273

(15)

B. O. Flower

``Woman and the Bicycle,'' Scribner's

288

(3)

Marguerite Merington

``A Fin de Cycle Incident,'' Outing

291

(11)

Edna C. Jackson

``Physical Education vs. Degeneracy,'' Independent

302

(4)

H. W. Foster

``On Being Civilized Too Much,'' Atlantic Monthly

306

(13)

Henry Charles Merwin

The Promises of Formal Education

319

(68)

``A Negro Schoolmaster in the New South,'' Atlantic Monthly

321

(8)

W. E. Burghardt Du Bois

``Modern College Education,'' Cosmopolitan

329

(10)

John Brisben Walker

``The Greatest Need of College Girls,'' Atlantic Monthly

339

(10)

Annie Payson Call

``The School Days of an Indian Girl,'' Atlantic Monthly

349

(12)

Zitkala-Sa

``The March of Progress,'' Century

361

(9)

Charles W. Chesnutt

``The Ingrate,'' New England Magazine

370

(6)

Paul Laurence Dunbar

``The Genius of Bowlder Bluff,'' Scribner's

376

(11)

Abbe Carter Goodloe

The Future & Cultural Change

387

(72)

``What a Great City Might Be---A Lesson from the White City,'' New England Magazine

389

(7)

John Coleman Adams

``The Problem of the West,'' Atlantic Monthly

396

(11)

Frederick J. Turner

``The Divorce of Man from Nature,'' Arena

407

(5)

Anna R. Weeks

``Susan's Escort,'' Harper's

412

(13)

Edward Everett Hale

``Twenty-Four: Four,'' Harper's

425

(22)

Elizabeth Stuart phelps

``Within an Ace of the End of the World,'' McClure's

447

(12)

Robert Barr

Bibliography

459

(6)

Index

465

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